Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Our history is one of using up and destroying our natural resources, out
soil, water, even the air itself, with no concern for the future. This is
not a "dim view"; it's a terrible view, and it's accepted fact throughout
the scientific world today. But we're certainly not the first to foul our
own nest. Empires through history have ruined the land that sustained them,
and all empires fall. Greece deforested their islands for timber for ships,
Rome depleted the soil that fed them. City states in ancient India and the
Mideast were lost in dust. It goes on and on. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 3/12/2007 at 6:43 PM Barbara Fischer wrote:

>My goodness, you all have a very dim view of our history.
>
>Barbara
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
>To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 7:28 PM
>Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] 1491 New Revelations of the Americas
>BeforeColumbus
>
>
>>
>> Yes. Churchill said "History will be kind to me, for I intend to write
>it".
>> The thing is, what we know of agriculture, as a country, is cut down to
>the
>> last few decades, and only what's good for John Deere and Monsanto. This
>> country is clueless about what worked for millions of indigenous
peoples.
>> And it will be our undoing. The past simply does not exist, except in
>> racist cowboys and indians westerns. But the cavalry isn't coming to
save
>> us.
>>
>> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>>